Butterfly in the sky, LeVar Burton can go twice as high -- and then some.

On Wednesday, the actor and former host of "Reading Rainbow" launched a Kickstarter campaign to revive the long-running educational children's program, a beloved mainstay on PBS from 1983 to 2009, as a 21st century interactive library for "every child, everywhere."

But as Burton explained via the "Reading Rainbow" Kickstarter page, the revived version of "Reading Rainbow" will be very new-media-focused. "When 'Reading Rainbow' began in 1983, we were using television to bring books to kids, meeting them where they wanted to be," he said. "In 2014, TV is not that place anymore. Now, we’re trying to reach a new generation of digital natives."

Celebrity photos taken by Los Angeles Times photographers.

With that in mind, Burton has an ambitious plan for the revived "Reading Rainbow," which has existed as an app for tablets since 2012, to make the entire digital collection available to Web-connected children anywhere and in classrooms across the country -- not simply those with iPads. Money raised by the campaign will also go toward production of new video field trips.

But, to borrow Burton's catchphrase, you don't have to take my word for it. You can read all about the new "Reading Rainbow" here.